| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: Pierrette
Minard, Auguste-Jean-Francois
The Government Clerks
The Middle Classes
Nucingen, Baron Frederic de
Father Goriot
Pierrette
Cesar Birotteau
Lost Illusions
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the same time deliberately firing at the king. Barney seemed
the only one who noticed them. Once again he raised his
revolver and fired. One of the men sat down suddenly, looked
vacantly about him, and then rolled over upon his side. The
other fired once more at the king and the same instant
Barney fired at the soldier. Soldier and king--would-be
assassin and his victim--fell simultaneously. Barney gri-
maced. The wound in his breast was painful. He had done
his best to save the king. It was no fault of his that he had
failed. It was a long way to Beatrice. He wondered if Emma
von der Tann would be on the station platform, awaiting
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: III
You tossed a blanket from the bed,
You lay upon your back, and waited;
You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The thousand sordid images
Of which your soul was constituted;
They flickered against the ceiling.
And when all the world came back
And the light crept up between the shutters,
And you heard the sparrows in the gutters,
You had such a vision of the street
Prufrock/Other Observations |
